Left and Right Seek Common Goals in Supreme Court
The standard ideological spectrum of a “Right” and “Left” sometimes fails to explain politics. An article in the New York Times on November 24 helps highlight how the traditional...
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America’s Multi-Tiered Healthcare System
MSNBC reported on November 23 that America may be looking at a two-tier system of medical care. The news organization described the care at a clinic with two doors,...
EU Chooses Van Rompuy as Its First President
The European Union has chosen its first President, Herman Van Rompuy, the current Prime Minister of Belgium. Van Rompuy is a relatively minor political figures in Europe. ...
Union May File Grievance Over Boy Scout Volunteer
Nick Balzano, the President of the Allenton, Pennsylvania, chapter of the Service Employees International Union, told the Allentown City Council on Tuesday that his union may file a grievance...
High Army Suicide Rate & U.S. Foreign Policy
Reuters and other media organs have reported that the suicide rate in the United States Army is twice the national suicide rate and that Army suicides, including those recently...
UN ‘Hunger’ Summit in Rome
The United Nations has entered the climate change debate in an interesting way: "There can be no food security without climate security," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the World...
Why Stimulus Funds Create Few Jobs
The Obama administration has recently reduced by 60,000 the number of jobs created or preserved by stimulus funds. The acknowledged overstatement of jobs underscores the problem with all government...
Vatican Considers ET Possibility
CBS News reported on November 11 that Pope Benedict is considering the possibility of extraterrestrial life, which is an attempt to bridge the gap between science and religion. This...
Veterans Day
Veterans Day was once Armistice Day. This holiday once celebrated not our brave fighting men and women but rather the end of one of the most dramatic testaments to...
Bureaucratization of Religion in Britain
The New York Times on November 8 reported that the highest court of the United Kingdom was facing as a legal issue the question of who is a Jew...
Treating Honduras Like a Colony
The Associated Press reported on November 6 that a deal to end the constitutional crisis in Honduras and form a unity govenment has fallen apart. Ousted President Manuel Zelaya...
Healthcare, Sausages, and the Constitution
Two things that people should never see being made, Otto Von Bismarck once quipped, were sausages and laws. The Founding Fathers intended to make it hard to pass laws....
Unrepentant Stasi 20 Years After Fall of Berlin Wall
Reuters reported on November 4 that for many members of the odious Stasi, the secret police of the old East German Communist government, the 20th anniversary of the fall...
Remembering the Mass-murderer Mao
The statement by Anita Dunn, Obama’s Communications Director, describing Mao Tse-tung (aka Mao Zedong) as one of her two favorite philosophers, is, of course, appalling. Sixty years ago China,...
Mussolini Worked for British Intelligence
Reuters reported on October 14 that Benito Mussolini had been in the pay of British intelligence services during the First World War. The implication of the story is that...